NetWorks - FAWCO Takes Up the MDG Challenge
At the 2005 FAWCO Conference in Birmingham there was much excitement as the delegates committed to take on one of the world’s great problems and unanimously agreed to:
“take up the global challenge for reducing poverty and improving lives by promoting and supporting the Millennium Development Goals. More specifically, they resolved to address the tragedy of malaria by encouraging FAWCO's members to make a significant commitment to worldwide malaria prevention."
With this mandate the FAWCO clubs agreed to work together in the battle against malaria – a preventable and treatable disease that none-the-less takes the lives of nearly 3 million people each year, mostly children. With an emphasis on the purchase of ITNs (insecticide treated mosquito bed nets) our goal was to supply at least one net for every member of FAWCO by March 2006, which we did with great success. We called this venture NetWorks.
Paula Daeppen, FAWCO UN Rep